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Mobile-first web design: Why Asian brands can't afford to ignore it in 2025

Mobile-first web design is not just best practice, it is a survival strategy.

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Mobile-first web design: Why Asian brands can't afford to ignore it in 2025

Mobile-first web design is not just best practice, it is a survival strategy.

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Business partnership as TKDN services: Unlocking Indonesia’s digital future

Once viewed as an obstacle, TKDN is now poised to become Indonesia’s most strategic industrial policy lever.

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Are luxury boutique hotels the new black?

High-quality service and lavish room amenities have become baseline expectations—universal norms rather than differentiators.

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UK in the Bloc: CPTPP expansion benefits all parties

The UK’s accession to one of the world’s biggest free trade agreements can unlock further growth along the Asia-Pacific corridor.

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ASEAN businesses should not underestimate opportunities 'Down Under'

Access to capital, commodities and infrastructure expertise can unlock new opportunities for the fast-growing region.

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Why Singaporean investors should bet on Australia’s hospitality sector for strong returns

Investors are starting to view hotels as not just a safe investment, but also a profitable one.

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Investment from Taiwan is fuelling an EV and AI boom in ASEAN

A region once better known for its natural resources is fast becoming a critical part of the EV and AI revolutions.

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Cracking the Human Code in Cybersecurity

There is an urgent need for organizations to adopt comprehensive cybersecurity strategies.

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How 2024 will spark financial services innovation in Southeast Asia

The future belongs to firms who seize the potential of transformative technologies to shape the next generation of financial services.

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Taylor Swift is coming to Asia: Are you ready for it?

With only two stops in Asia, most Swifties won’t be able to go to The Eras Tour, but that’s only made the hype stronger.

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Fuelling the future of finance with data streams

Traditional institutions need to utilise constant, real-time data flow that generates insights on the fly.

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Rethinking fintech growth with a product-led approach

As we continue to experience economic uncertainty across the world, the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region hasn’t been spared from the volatility.

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Fit For the Post-Pandemic Future: Driving Employee Engagement Through an Intergenerational Lens

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid work arrangements have become the norm globally for organizations across industries. Locally, a strong majority of Singapore companies (78%) are leaning towards maintaining a hybrid schedule, according to recent data from Milieu Insight. At the same time, employees are far less enthusiastic about going all-in on one work environment, with only 12% prefer working from the office all the time and only 10% wanting to work remotely full-time.

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Building resilience for the new normal

The current global pandemic serves as a sobering reminder for organisations to assume unexpected disruptions can occur anytime and plan accordingly. When the World Health Organisation first declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, merely 12% of organisations believed their businesses were highly prepared for the impact of the virus. As the outbreak unfolds, organisations that neglected the emerging risks were caught unprepared and hit with a hard lesson, as they find themselves playing catch up and losing ground to companies that were better prepared.

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Asia-Pacific IT Priorities: One Year After the Pandemic

A Survey of Financial Services Firms.

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Why Hong Kong needs a corporate wellness paradigm shift now

By mid-June of 2021, more than 2.4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered to populations in 180 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. While that may be encouraging news on its face, a return to ‘business as usual’ remains a distant and uncertain prospect; though COVID transmission rates are down in some countries, they have skyrocketed in others, causing yet more rounds of lockdowns and bringing economic activity to a virtual halt.

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